Wakinyan From the Sky

I had let my wife off for work and while driving out of the parking lot I spotted this cloud in the sky. Light from the sun refracting off the water droplets in it were making the colors of the rainbow inside the cloud and as it moved the colors shifted to mostly yellow with an orange portion and then an almost non existent, very thin, rim of brilliant red. I thought the cloud looked like a bird ascending and the clouds to the lower left like a formation of birds the opposite direction. I used my i-Phone 14. BTW, the word "wakinyan" is a Native American word meaning, approximately beautiful bird or firebird. I looked the word up in Navajo and it came out to something I could never pronounce. (tsįyaatsiiłchííʼ - which is the word for Scarlet Taneger) is the word. I have spent a lot of time up on the rez but that word is one I do not have a clue for.

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Wow! Thanks for sharing this phenomenon. It's really beautiful!

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